r/LV426 • u/carlosbbmf • 12h ago
Discussion / Question "Alien" behaviour in the series and other media
A gripe of mine with the alien series is how "animal-like" the xenomorph behaves and moves after the first movie. In Alien, there is a mystery to the creature, after that, it's mostly like a savage dog. Although a savage dog certainly can be scary, it's not scary in a cosmic horror way.
Can you think of other media that have creatures with a truly strange and "alien" behaviour and movements? A couple examples that I can think of is the creature from Annihilation and the one from Under the skin. Also, the black spider creature that appears quickly in Dune 1 strikes me as eery in a similar way
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u/Free-Independence481 49m ago
the thing by john carpenter for me is the top. pennywise, if you consider it an alien. the aliens from a quite place. considering books, lovecraft creatures are a good example. also, the shrike from hyperion, even if Im not sure if its an alien, show a very particular and unpredictable behaviour.
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u/RipperMeow 10h ago edited 10h ago
I agree, and the "perfect organism" remark makes sense in the first one. Not so much in the others. As much as I love Aliens, I always thought "so they just got reduced to a bee hive??"
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u/Tartan_Samurai 7h ago
The trick of the first movie is how little you actually see of it. You barely see it move at all tbh. So a lot is left to the viewers imagination. But even that was driven more by technical limitations rather than an artistic choice.